Eastman House - 2012
Our 30th Year
Sunday, August 5th and Monday August 6th
George Eastman House
The Dryden Theatre
900 East Avenue
Rochester N.Y.
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ARMS AND THE GRINGO (1914)
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Director:
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Christy Cabanne
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Cast:
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Wallace Reid
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Dorothy Gish
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A still topical theme of weapons smuggling across the U.S./Mexican border. Directed
by D.W. Griffith protégé Christy Cabanne.
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THE DEVIL'S CLAIM (1920)
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Director:
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Charles Swickard
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Cast:
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Sessue Hayakawa
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Colleen Moore
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William Buckley
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Sessue Hayakawa as a best-selling Indian (sic) novelist who cynically bases his
themes and characters on his previous lovers, but is outwitted by his latest attempted
conquest.
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COBRA (1925)
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Director:
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Joseph Henabery
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Cast:
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Rudolph Valentino
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Nita Naldi
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Rudolph Valentino as an impoverished Italian nobleman trying to escape from his
endless obsession with sexual conquests takes a job with an American antiques dealer
and moves to the U.S. But there are women in America too.
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SHOW PEOPLE (1928)
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Director:
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King Vidor
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Cast:
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Marion Davies
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William Haines
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Marion Davies in her best film as a star struck ingénue loosely based on Gloria
Swanson trying to "make it" in Hollywood. She initially proves a flop as a dramatic
actress, but perseveres and is finally accepted. Several Hollywood stars appear
as themselves, as does King Vidor, the film's director.
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I KISS YOUR HAND, MADAME (1929)
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Director:
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Robert Land
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Cast:
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Marlene Dietrich
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Harry Liedke
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An early, pre-Sternberg film starring Marlene Dietrich as a divorcee manipulating
new lovers that proves she was both beautiful and talented before she met her "Svengali".
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LUCKY STAR (1929)
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Director:
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Frank Borzage
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Cast:
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Janet Gaynor
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Charles Farrell
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A farm girl and a disabled returning World War I soldier resume a tentative romance
that was interrupted by the War. Directed by Frank Borzage, unmatched as creator
of powerful and sensitive romantic dramas--far superior to anything masquerading
as such being made today.
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Day 2 - August 1
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REMEMBER LAST NIGHT? (1935)
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Director:
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James Whale
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Cast:
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Edward Arnold
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Robert Young
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Constance Cummings
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A wild party by a group of rich socialites turns sour when their host is murdered.
The Art Deco sets are amazing. Everson 16mm print.
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NOTHING SACRED (1937)
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Director:
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William A. Wellman
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Cast:
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Carole Lombard
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Fredric March
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Nitrate Technicolor Print! Fredric March and Carole Lombard star in a Ben Hecht
scripted satire on the use of unscrupulous newspaper tactics to build circulation.
A fine screwball comedy directed by William ("Wild Bill") Wellman.
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FALL GUY (1947)
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Director:
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Reginald Le Borg
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Cast:
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Leo Penn
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Robert Armstrong
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Elisha Cook Jr.
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Little-known but powerful film noir based on a story "Cocaine" by Cornell Woolrich
(though the drug is never named in the film). Told in fragmentary flashbacks and
produced by low-budget Monogram Films, to whom Jean-Luc Godard dedicated Breathless.
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BERLIN EXPRESS (1948)
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Director:
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Jacques Tourneur
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Cast:
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Merle Oberon
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Robert Ryan
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Paul Lukas
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A post-World War II political thriller set and filmed in Germany, in which unreconstructed
Nazis attempt to disrupt a conference intended to strengthen international unity.
Robert Ryan and Merle Oberon star.
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THE FALLEN IDOL (1948)
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Director:
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Carol Reed
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Cast:
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Ralph Richardson
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Michele Morgan
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Like The Third Man, Carol Reed's powerful and moving film is based on a story and
script by Graham Greene. Centering on the relationship between an impressionable
young boy and his parents' butler (played by Ralph Richardson), the film is beautifully
shot by Georges Périnal in sets that play almost as important a part in the plot
as the characters do.
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STARS IN MY CROWN (1950)
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Director:
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Jacques Tourneur
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Cast:
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Joel McCrea
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Ellen Drew
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Dean Stockwell
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Alan Hale
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Joel McCrea as a Civil War veteran turned gospel minister in a small Southern town
where he has to deal with hostility and misunderstanding by some of his parishioners
and eventually has to defend one of them from a lynch mob.
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Selected Shorts Include:
WILLY AND THE CONJURER (1912)
THE CAMERA CURE (1917)
THE TIP (1918)
